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Language! Program
Course Description:
Language! Is a highly-structured, research-based intervention that offers an accelerated, sequential
approach to literacy while addressing the components of a balanced literacy diet. This course offers
students who have experienced difficulty with reading skills an opportunity to break apart structures of
language to gain deep understanding of how words, sentences, and paragraphs work and how authors use
structures to create meaning. Students read and write extensively in nonfiction forms; other genre are
experienced through read-alouds, literature circles, and independent reading. Based on extensive preassessments,
students are placed in mixed-grade ability groups to accelerate mastery of specific skills.
Note:
This program is a curriculum separate from but infused with the regular curriculum. The program is
offered in grades 6-12 as an intervention. The correlation between the Language! program and the
Standards of Learning for English Language Arts is included in the appendices.
Students in this program receive all of the components of a balanced literacy diet. Additionally, they
spend 20-25 minutes per day in connected text.
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